User:Vtaylor/Writing non-fiction for kids

• start with thing (object, structure), think (idea, concept), life (activity/project)
• suggestions
• improve e4k stories > more engaging
• balance facts, depth, length of piece, learn more
• format - pictures, captions, headings, links, readability
• granularity - focus - pretty tight, ? group
• activities - sidebar
• critter logo - frog ? Mo (More..)
• engineering idea - highlight technical at end

questions

• middle school readers - pictures, text length, focus, attention
• assignments/ retrieval > search, link, hierarchy, keyword, category, index

some resources

• Eleven tips - Fiona Bayrock YESMag, KNOW, Odyssey, WILD, Highlights for Children, Smart Writers Journal, kidmagwriters.com, Institute of Children's Literature
  Pascal's law (water can't be squished so the more pressure applied to it, the faster it leaves a pipe...yawn) becomes interesting and relevant to a 10-year-old when you write about it as the science behind squirt guns and Super Soakers. See? Even the physics of hydraulics